Wrestling

– Former WWE star John “Morrison” Hennigan will face Shelton Benjamin on the World Wrestling Fan Xperience iPPV, which takes place on February 4th. The show will begin at 7PM ET, and will be available on iPPV at gfl.tv – Also scheduled for the show are the following matches… * MVP vs. Chris Masters * Melina vs. Jillian Hall * Also appearing are Carlito Colon, Luke Gallows, Rhino, Jimmy Yang, Shawn Daivari, Gene Snitsky and Billy Gunn – As noted earlier here on the website, ROH will run two iPPV events, one on March 30th and one on March 31st, [...]

– Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown scored a 2.11 (2.1) cable rating, with 3.14 million viewers. That’s more or less equal with the rating a week before, which was a 2.14 and 3.32 million. The show ranked #4 among cable TV shows for the night in overall viewers, adult males 18 – 34, adult males 18 – 49 and teenage males 12 – 17. The demo ratings were even with last week. The cable TV viewing for night was won by Discovery channel’s Friday night lineup. – The Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant chain is going to stop showing WWE pay-per-view [...]

– AIWF Mid-Atlantic Wrestling and Thomasville Communities In Schools proudly present CHAIR CITY CLASH II on Saturday, March 3, 2012 at Thomasville High School in Thomasville, NC. Doors open at 6:30pm. Bell time is 7:30pm. Louis Moore will face Matt Hardy in the evening’s main event. Go to http://facebook.com/aiwfmidatlantic for more information. – 3XWrestling presents Divide & Conquer 2 in Des Moines, Iowa tonight. “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce defends the NWA World Heavyweight championship against two-time former 3XW Heavyweight and current NWA Central States champion “The Rebel” Jeremy Wyatt. This is the first NWA World heavyweight title match in Des [...]

– According to an interview with Chris Masters, Shelton Benjamin and John Morrison will be competing for the WWFX Title in the Philippines on February 4th. Masters also noted that the promoters are hoping that Manny Pacquiao will make an appearance for the title match main event. Masters also noted that he was looking into doing some acting. – A new documentary, titled GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling will be released this year. The film will include footage of the 1980s syndicated series, as well as interviews with talent. Here is the official blurb on the [...]

As seen on Monday’s RAW Supershow, WWE apparently wrote Zack Ryder out of the storylines for the time being. There had been talk for weeks of keeping Ryder off TV for some time. While this isn’t confirmed, there are now rumblings that Ryder is away filming a movie or some kind of program, possibly for the WWE Network. After we noted a few weeks ago that WWE reached an agreement with “The Luke & Duane Show” to feature the song “Just Take Care, Spike Your Hair (The Broski of the Week Song)” on WWE programming. Speculation now is that Ryder [...]

– A pre-sale for the ROH/CHIKARA Synergy events has started. ROH tickets are priced at the $20-$60 and CHIKARA will be entirely general admission for $25. The pre-sale is selling tickets for ROH Unity on its own as well as a combo package for both events. A combo ticket will save you $10 overall. The pre-sale is open only to paid members of ROH’s “Ringside” membership. – Bradley Woodward sent this one in: THQ put out a press release today mentioning that they are in the process of exiting from making Kids licensed games and instead are going to focus [...]

– Ricardo Rodriguez indicated that Alberto Del Rio won’t be ready to return in time for the 30-man Royal Rumble match next Sunday. He wrote on Twitter: “If Mr Del Rio wasn’t hurt he could easily win the Royal Rumble again this year. He did win the biggest Royal Rumble match ever after all!” – It was pointed out by WWE sources to F4Wonline that there was no Twitter mentions or graphics during last night’s RAW Supershow. Apparently that was not by accident and some feel that WWE may have had a change of heart regarding the social networking site. [...]

– WWE returns to the McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga, Tennessee on Sunday, May 6th, 2012 at 5 PM. – Cinemax will premiere House of the Rising Sun starring Batista on Saturday, February 4, 2012. – WWEShop.com is offering up to 85% off with their Clearance Super Sale, you can check it out by clicking here. – WrestlingINC.com reader SmarkySmark sent a message today to Cory Ledesma, lead Creative Designer for WWE ’12, and mentioned that including the Hammerstein venue to the Create-an-Arena feature would be pretty cool. Within minutes Ledesma replied, “@SmarkySmark maybe next year *wink wink*”